Liz Truss, the UK's international trade secretary, insisted Boris Johnson paid for renovations to his Downing Street flat out of his own pocket, but could not say whether the money was fronted initially by Conservative party donors. On Friday, Dominic Cummings accused the prime minister of hatching an 'unethical, foolish, possibly illegal' plan to have donors secretly pay for the refurbishment
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